That picture up on the shoulders of these particular words contains one Dilson Herrera, the same one who had his contract purchased by the Cincinnati Reds on Friday for a long-awaited return to the big leagues. In said picture, Herrera’s slappin’ high-fives with Eloy Jimenez, who still has yet to make his big league debut as a member of any of the franchises with whom he has plied his professional baseball trade.
We’ll get to the news about the 2018 Futures Game here in a sec. Right now, this is just a long-con to remind you of exactly how young - and how promising - Dilson Herrera still is to the Reds.